Pin-ticket and the like.



A. J. WILLIAMS.

PIN TICKET AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 18. I915.

1, 176,507. Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

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2 Awslwmiamsg ATTORNEY- THE COLUMBIA PLANDORAPN cm, WASHINGTON, D. CI

mus .T. WILLIAMS, or once, NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET AND THE LIKE.

specification of Letters i'atent.

Iatented Mar. 21, 19-16.

Apiilfltl'fl filed October 18, 19 15. Serial No. 56,884.

To all whom i 'mayedncern Be-it'knownthat-I, ARAs J. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New Yorln-h'ave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets and the like, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to appliances, such as tags, tickets, badges and the like-,which include pins for securing them in place, and it consists in certain improvements in appliances of this class designed with the principal object of holding the appliance close against the material to which it is attached and of so dis osing the pin point that it will be protected.againstcatching in other materials or scratching or otherwise injuring the hands'of the user and of yet rendering the attaching or detaching facile of accomplishment and insnringaga'inst accidental unfastening of the appliance.

For the urpose of illustration I have shown the improved appliance in the accompanying drawing as a pin ticket, Figure 1 being a plan thereof, attached to the piece of fabric; Fig. 2 a rear view thereof; Fig. 3 a sectional view of the a pliance on the line; ca e in Fig. 1'; Fig. 4 a perspective view of the attaching device; Fig. 5 an end elevation of the attaching device; and Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the pin ticket at right an les to the section of Fig. '3 and in the plane of the attaching device.

a is a piece of sheet material, such as a tag or ticket, of pasteboard or the like.

15 is the attaching device. This in the present instance is formed wholly of wire, but as the claims appended to this 'spec'ifica tion will indicate this is not indispensable, since certain portions thereof "at least may be formed of other materials. The device I) as illustrated is constructed as follows: Parallel elongated loops 0 and d, arranged to lie almost in the same plane, are formed in the wire, one at one extremity thereof and the other at a suitable distance from the other extremity. These'are joined by the length e of wire which for the most part is straight and parallel with the plane in which lies the loop 0, although short end portions 6' of said length upstand therefrom and merge into the said loops. The plane of the length of wire e, which forms the body member of the attaching device, is quite close to the aforesaid plane of the loop 0, there being such a space between the two planes. as about equals the thickness of the piece of material a. The other extremity of the wire is straight, has its free end pointed, and thus forms the pin proper f of the attaching device. In plan (Fig. 2) it is parallelwith the length or body portion -e-, but in side elevation (dotted lines Fig. 6) it inclines, when free, from the loop {2 in such-manner that its tip is somewhat distanced from the loop d. The parts e and f are arranged at right angles to the loops 0 and d, the part f being coincident with the central transverse axis of each and the art 6 nearly so. The tip or extremity g of the end of the wire of which the loop d is formed is spaced from and approximately opposite the angular juncture h (g and it being approximately in the same plane as the loop a) where loop d and the adjoining upstanding portion 6' of member e merge together, but at the opposite or closed side d of the loop the fwire is elevated somewhat (see Fig. 3). Thus a pocket 2' is formedto receive the pin In its assembled relation withthe tag, ticket or other piece a theattaching device has the straight portion of the length or body member 6 lying against the front face of the piece a, the u standing portions 6 thereof penetrating said piece, While the loops c and d preferably bear against the opposite face of the iece a, the loop (3 at its p 9' In attaching the appliance to a piece of fabric, as A, the pin f initially stands in the positio'n'shown b dotted lines in Fig. 6, and the pin is thrust through the fabric and then back again so that its point is ultimately on the same side of the goods-as that through which it was first entered. There'- upon the extremity of the pin is sprung between the loop at and the piece a and into the ocket 2' of said loop. In this position, crossed and held against the ticket at its free end by the portion d of the loop, the pin is confined against accidental displacement by the abutmentor shoulder formed by the blunt end of the wire, which bears against the ticket. The loop (1 thus forms a holder overlying the pin f and necessitating the ticket and extremity g to be separated (say by inserting the thumb-nail under loop d at the point d" and springing said loop away from the ticket) and then the lateral movement of the pin to clear said loop, be-

fore the pin can assume the position, shown a by dotted lines in Fig. 6, where it can be withdrawn from the fabric A.

It will be understood that as the member 6 bears against one side of the piece a so the loops 0 and (1 form bearing means bearing against the other side of said piece a, so that the attaching device is held more or less in immovable relation to the piece a, especially if the latter is formed of pasteboard or other somewhat stifi' material.

I do not wish to belimited to certain details which I have herein set forth in the description of that form of the appliance which I have herein shown by way of illustration, what I claim being:

1. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and an attaching device therefor including a body member at one side of said piece and having parts thereof penetrating the latter at spaced points, a pinincluding portion rigidly connected to one of said parts and a holder opposite and disposed close to the opposite side of said piece rigidly connected to the other of said parts and overlying the free end portion of the pin.

2. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and an attaching device therefor including a body member at one side of said piece and having parts thereof penetrating the latter at spaced points, a pinincluding portion rigidly connected to one of said parts and a holder opposite and disposed close to the opposite side of said piece rigidly connected to the other of said parts and overlying the free end portion of the pin, said holder having a. pin-retaining shoulder at the side thereof adjoining said piece.

3. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and attaching means therefor including a pin and a pin-holder connected to said piece, the holder reaching over the pin from one side thereof and having a shouldered portion at the other side of the pin coacting with said piece to retain the pin engaged with the holder, said piece and the shouldered portion being adapted one to be moved from the other to release the pin.

1. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and an attaching device therefor formed of wire, an intermediate length of the wire being arranged at one side of and having parts thereof penetrating said piece at spaced points, and one extremity of the wire forming a pin extending substantially parallel with said intermediate length and the other crossing the free end part of the pin relatively outwardly thereof and arranged opposite and close to the other side of said piece.

5. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and an attaching device therefor formed of wire, an intermediate length of the wire being arranged at one side of'and having parts thereof penetrating said piece at spaced points, and one extremity of the wire forming a pin extending substantially parallel with said intermediate length and the other crossing the free end part of the pin relatively outwardly thereof and arranged opposite and close to the other side of said piece and having a pin-retaining abutment.

6. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and an attaching device therefor formed of wire, an intermediate length of the wire being arranged at one side of and 7 having parts thereof penetrating said piece at spaced points, and one extremity of the wire forming a pin extending substantially parallel with said intermediate length and the other crossing the free end part of the pin relatively outwardly thereof and forming a pin holder, said holder having a shouldered portion bearing against said piece and coacting therewith to retain the pin engaged with said holder.

7. In combination, a piece of material to be attached and an attaching device therefor including a body member bearing against one side of said piece and having parts thereof protruding through the latter at spaced points, and bearing means rigidly connected to said parts where they protrude through said piece and bearing against the other side of said piece, said means including at said other side a pin and a holder therefor.

8. An attaching device formed of wire and including a body member and a pin and a pin-holder respectively comprising the ends of the wire, the holder overlying the free end part of the pin and the pin bearing against said holder, said holder having the free end thereof projecting toward and affording a locking shoulder for the pin.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ARAS J. WILLIAMS.

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